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bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's lock
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:10:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 06:00:14 +0100
>> Cc: 23033@debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Sloan <mgsloan@gmail.com>
>>
>> As much as I agree with the general sentiment above, one could also
>> consider users who are running e.g. 'find -iname "*.hs"' and are not
>> necessarily interested in seeing Emacs lock files. IOW, if this is
>> not a big change, it could be worth doing it.
>
> What change did you have in mind? AFAICT, no specific change was
> proposed in that bug report.
>
> The advantage of the current method is that Dired and 'ls' display the
> lock file right near the file that is locked, at least on most systems
> and with the default file sorting order. If the change proposal will
> order them far apart, it would be a disadvantage.
My suggestion would be to add a one character suffix to the file name.
For example ".", so that:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 skangas skangas 30 2019-11-08 15:06 .#package.el ->
skangas@joffe.31542:1572461517
Would instead look like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 skangas skangas 30 2019-11-08 15:06 .#package.el. ->
skangas@joffe.31542:1572461517
That, I think, looks visually not too busy.
(The most clear would be a suffix "-emacs-lock" or "-lock" but that is
probably too ugly and long.)
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Stefan Kangas, 2019/11/08
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking,
Stefan Kangas <=
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Michael Sloan, 2019/11/09
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/09
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Stefan Kangas, 2019/11/09
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/09
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Michael Sloan, 2019/11/09
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/14
- bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking, Michael Sloan, 2019/11/16